An ex-convict accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old Rochester girl earlier this week and taking her to New York City has been arrested on sexual abuse and other charges.
Three men have been sentenced to long prison terms for last year's kidnapping and killing of a man whose body was found buried in a backyard in Rochester.
Two former employees of a state agency that operates group homes for people with disabilities have been sentenced for the 2017 death of a client residing at a western New York facility.
Authorities have released more information on an apparent murder-suicide in western New York that also left a third person hospitalized with serious injuries.
Authorities say a man killed his wife and seriously injured his mother in separate attacks in the women's Rochester-area homes before killing himself in western Pennsylvania.
A 19-year-old western New York charged with killing two other young men and setting fire to their vehicle has pleaded not guilty during a court appearance.
A man fatally shot a woman with whom he had a relationship and wounded his own son and a second man Wednesday, then was killed by police in a shootout during a vehicle chase through a Rochester neighborhood.